On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 11:50:07h +0000, David Looser wrote:

0 - 10: cold

It is not really cold until the temperature is below -10 degrees Celcius.

The important thing to consider though is the presence of any wind,
resulting in a wind chill effect, and the humidity.

Very humid conditions at 0 degrees C or so usually feels far worse
than say -10 degrees C when it is crisp and dry.

On 31/01/2012 17:28, J G Miller wrote:
On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 15:42:34h +0000,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Can't remember exactly how evasion was policed.

Roving teams of inspectors who discharged a hollowpoint round into the head of the miscreant.

Fixed your post for the London Met enforcement method.

On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 17:37:51h +0000, Recursor wrote:

On 31/01/2012 17:28, J G Miller wrote:
On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 15:42:34h +0000, Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:

Can't remember exactly how evasion was policed.

Roving teams of inspectors who discharged a hollowpoint round into the
head of the miscreant.

Fixed your post for the London Met enforcement method.

Ah yes, well that is what happens if you look a bit sunburnt,
wear a thick jacket with wires coming out of it, and leap over
the ticket barriers. (All details of which were fabricated to
justify murdering the victim.)

You can see the evidence that the Metropolitan Police deliberately
lied and deceived the public at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7nL0A6ASM

Remember that Greater London Mayor Kenneth Livingstone continued to
fully support Ian Blair even after the true facts about the deliberate
deception became public.

On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 17:59:59h +0000, J G Miller wrote:

On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 17:37:51h +0000, Recursor wrote:

On 31/01/2012 17:28, J G Miller wrote:
On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 15:42:34h +0000, Dave Plowman
(News) wrote:

Can't remember exactly how evasion was policed.

Roving teams of inspectors who discharged a hollowpoint round into the
head of the miscreant.

Fixed your post for the London Met enforcement method.

Incidentally it should be pointed out that there is growing list
of evidence that the shooting was not in fact carried out by
Metropolitan Police officers but was actually a military action
by the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.

http://web.archive.ORG/web/20051204000850/http://www.sundayherald.com/51372

It is alleged that the Metropolitan Police took the heat as having done
the actual shooting because the FauX LaboUr administration did not want
the public to know about the new role of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment
in anti-terrorist activity.

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:02:25 -0000, David Looser wrote:

The story goes that it was Napoleon who imposed driving on the right (or
more accurately in those pre-motor vehicle days passing oncoming traffic
on the right) onto a continent that up until then had mostly still
followed the old Roman rule of passing on the left.

Hum, I wonder of that has anything to do with which hand one would
have ones sword in? Most people are right handed so being on the
right makes it harder to take a swipe at some one passing.

I've read that travelling on the left was started because the Roman
roads were built to move soldiers, and if you want two groups of
soldiers to pass in opposite driections, both carrying their shields on
their left arms as shown in most pictures from the time, then if they
pass right to right, you can make the road at least a foot narrower, as
the shields can overhang the edge of the road, but would collide if the
groups passed left to left.

I've also read that Napoleon wanted to (a) confuse the opposition, and
(b) prove that France was so civilised that travellers didn't need easy
access to their swords to defend themselves from other travellers.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

On 31/01/2012 17:59, J G Miller wrote:
On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 17:37:51h +0000, Recursor wrote:

On 31/01/2012 17:28, J G Miller wrote:
On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 15:42:34h +0000, Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:

Can't remember exactly how evasion was policed.

Roving teams of inspectors who discharged a hollowpoint round into the
head of the miscreant.

Fixed your post for the London Met enforcement method.

Ah yes, well that is what happens if you look a bit sunburnt,
wear a thick jacket with wires coming out of it, and leap over
the ticket barriers. (All details of which were fabricated to
justify murdering the victim.)

You can see the evidence that the Metropolitan Police deliberately
lied and deceived the public at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7nL0A6ASM

Remember that Greater London Mayor Kenneth Livingstone continued to
fully support Ian Blair even after the true facts about the deliberate
deception became public.

Yeah, I see Fred the Shred has just lost his knighthood, about time the same
thing happened to Cur Ian Blair.

"John Williamson" wrote in message
...

I've read that travelling on the left was started because the Roman roads
were built to move soldiers, and if you want two groups of soldiers to
pass in opposite driections, both carrying their shields on their left
arms as shown in most pictures from the time, then if they pass right to
right, you can make the road at least a foot narrower, as the shields can
overhang the edge of the road, but would collide if the groups passed left
to left.

To be honest I doubt that. I would imagine that the "pass to the left" rule
was started when Rome was still just a city state and those to whom it
applied were mainly pedestrians within the city of Rome itself. Then it
would have spread with the Empire as there would be no reason to change it.
But, unless a Roman document entitled "reasons for passing to the left" ever
comes to light we'll never know for sure :-)

I've also read that Napoleon wanted to (a) confuse the opposition, and (b)
prove that France was so civilised that travellers didn't need easy access
to their swords to defend themselves from other travellers.

Well again, unless Napoleon left documentary evidence of his reasoning his
reasons will have died with him.

I remember my Dad telling me that traffic in Vienna (but not the rest of
Austria) still drove on the left right up to the Nazi occupation as it was
going to be too expensive to convert the tram system. Adolf, of course,
didn't care about the expense.

David.

Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:40:57 -0500, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

The NEC requires an outlet every 10 feet along a wall, and all
materials have to be UL approved. Now for your next lies?

Just counted up how many double 13A sockets we've just put into the
refurbished *half* of this place: 38. That makes for one helluva fuse
board if each was a radial... They are split over four rings as it
is.


Are you really that stupid, or do you just play a fool on Usenet?
The US National Electrical Code is online. It goes into great detail
about what can and can not be done. Read it, and see if you can learn
anything.


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

Ron wrote:

On 31/01/2012 15:58, David Looser wrote:

Ron wrote:

David Looser wrote:

Jerry wrote

Far more common to find the existing blown fuse wrapped in aluminium foil.

Well in some 2000-odd PAT tests I've never met that one, how often have you
come across it?

I used to see it a couple or three times a year back when I repaired
group gear, often on HT fuses in valve amplifiers, and back when 20mm
fuses started to become common in equipment, but not common in toolboxes.
It still amazes me that most musicians don't carry spare fuses around
with them.


Waste money on spare parts, and not have cash for their drugs? Hell,
some of them can't even afford to put enough gas in their beat up old
van to get to the gig.


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

On 30/01/2012 21:32, Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 1/31/2012 8:14 AM, UnsteadyKen wrote:

Trevor Wilson wrote...

I would posit that, when driving an automobile with a manual
gearbox, using one's right hand to control the wheel (assuming one is
right handed), with the other hand using the gear change, is a better
idea.

I'm right handed and learnt to drive in Germany and found that using
the right hand to manipulate the gear lever and handbrake felt natural
and controlled. It seemed awkward when I first drove in the UK and it
took a while to adjust.


**I'm sure that would be the case. I learned to drive in Australia,
using a 'three on the tree' and later a four speed, floor mounted manual
gearbox. I now drive a five speed manual gearbox car. I've driven auto
gearbox cars in the US and elsewhere. I reckon that trying to drive a
manual gearbox in the US would be a difficult adjustment to make, though
using an auto box was easy enough.


I've driven manual gearbox cars on mainland Europe (LHD) and I learned
in RHD England. No real problems - except the Renault electronic
handbrake, which was censored. Perhaps a few thousand auto-box miles
in the US first helped.

Andy